Roxcy Pearl O'Neal Bolton (June 3, 1926 – May 17, 2017)[1] was an American feminist and civil rights activist.

When first settling in Miami, Bolton worked an office job and joined the Young Democrats.

[4] Bolton is also credited with the opening of the influential and political Tiger Bay Club to women.

In another pioneering effort, Bolton initiated the Rehabilitation Program for Young Prostitutes in the Miami-Dade County.

The program offered educational opportunities to incarcerated prostitutes and attempted to keep the women off the streets and out of drugs.

Bolton also persuaded National Airlines to grant maternity leave to pregnant flight attendants rather than firing them.

[5] In her career as an activist, she fought for a variety of issues including: anti-rape, renaming hurricanes, equal pay, public breastfeeding, access to military academies for women, ending sexist advertising, maternity leave, ending segregation, and better refugee treatment.

She gathered 100 businesswomen, political leaders, activists, housewives and a few men and led them through downtown Miami to the courthouse.

[3] She was inducted into the Florida Women's Hall of Fame in 1984 for "forcing police and prosecutors to make rape crime a priority".

"[4] Bolton died on the morning of May 17, 2017 at Doctor's Hospital in Coral Gables, Florida at the age of 90.